CABARET SHOW.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 197, 21 July 1937, Page 13

CABARET SHOW.

SEEN BY WIRELESS. A cabaret show taking place miles away was one of 'the many features of interest seen bv Hon. M. .1. Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand, on his recent visit to the factories of Ilis Master’s Voice at Hayes, Middlesex, England. The “turn” —an item in the regular transmissions broadcast from Alexandra Palace, London —was viewed on one of the latest television receivers, and Mr Savage expressed his surprise and admiration a.t the clearness of the picture. The party accompanying Mr Savage included Mr W. J. Jordan (High Commissioner for New Zealand), Mr C. A. Jeffrey (private secretary to the Prime Minister). Mrs Jeffrey, Mr H. T. B. Drew (publicity officer), and Mrs Berendsen. The visitors had been welcomed to Hayes by Sir Louis Sterling, managing director of Electric and Musical Industries, the controlling company of the factories, and were conducted on their tour by Mr W. T. Forse, controller of factories. The group of factories extends over an area of sixty acres and forms a veritable township in itself. During .peak periods as many as fifteen skilled workers are engaged in the making of radio, radio-gramophones, gramophones, and gramophone records. There are six main blocks of buildings which consist of the machine factory, the cabinet factory, tlie record factory and stores, the assembly building, the research laboratories, and the administrative offices, and all these were visited in turn.

The tour over, the visitors took tea in the board room, over the fireplace of which is the original painting by Francis Barraud, R.A.. of the fox-terrier listening to the gramophone of early design This picture is now known all the world over. At the conclusion of the tour Mr Savage expressed his admiration for the care and skill that went into the production of the firm’s products. He was also very pleased to know that such a large number of these British-made radios and radiogramophones were destined for the Dominions and colonies, including New Zealand.